| "Hi-Heel Sneakers" | ||||
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| Single by Tommy Tucker | ||||
| B-side | "Don't Want 'Cha (Watcha Gonna Do)" | |||
| Released | 1964 | |||
| Recorded | 1963 | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Length | 2:45 | |||
| Label | Checker | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Robert Higginbotham[1] a.k.a. Tommy Tucker | |||
| Producer(s) | Herb Abramson | |||
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"Hi-Heel Sneakers" (often also spelled "High Heel Sneakers") is a blues song written and recorded by Tommy Tucker in 1963. Blues writer Mary Katherine Aldin describes it as an uptempo twelve-bar blues, with "a spare, lilting musical framework", and a strong vocal.[2] The song's rhythmic approach has also been compared to that of Jimmy Reed.[3] Tucker's lyrics recall the time he spent as a Golden Gloves boxer in the 1950s:
Put on your red dress baby
Lord we're goin' out tonight (2×)
And wear some boxin' gloves
In case some fool might wanna fight
- ^ Higginbotham is misspelled "Higgenbotham" on the Checker single label.
- ^ Aldin, Mary Katherine (1989). Soul Shots Volume 4: Urban Blues (Album notes). Various artists. Rhino Records. p. 2. R2 75758.
- ^ Dahl, Bill (1996). "Tommy Tucker". In Erlewine, Michael (ed.). All Music Guide to the Blues: The Experts' Guide to the Best Blues Recordings. All Music Guide to the Blues. San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books. p. 253. ISBN 0-87930-424-3.